| Foundations: Course Overview - Schedule at a glance | |||||||
| Monday 9:30 - 11:30 | Monday 1-3 | Tuesday 9:30-11:30 | Thursday 9:30 - 12:30 | Thursday 6:30-9:30 | Saturday 9-12 | Sunday 9-12 | |
| Week 1 September 3-5 | Intro to the new discipline; Skill: Working in groups | Philosophy, overview and goals | |||||
| Week 2 September 9-12 | Skill: Intro to the design process | Skill: Intro to the design process, cont. | AI: Agents and agent system methodology | Skill: How to think about problems; Inf: What do people do in seeking; Assignment due (Olson) | Programming class 1 | Programming Lab | Programming Lab |
| Week 3 September 16-19 | Skill: Needs analysis methods | Econ: Objective functions; Psych: Motivation | Psych: Function allocation | AI: Engineering agents; Integrating Question #1 | Programming class 2 | Programming Lab | Programming Lab |
| Week 4 September 23-26 | Project Assignment #1 due; Econ: Constraints | Econ: Non strategic agents | Psych: Organizational Theory | Psych: Routines and Standards; Assignment due (Olson) | Programming class 3 | Programming Lab | Programming Lab |
| Week 5 September 30 - October 3 | Psych: Organizational Learning; Assignment due (MacKie-Mason) | CS: Elementary data structures, trees; Inf: Collections Development; Assignment due (Drabenstott) | CS: Recursion | Psych: Human Inf Processing; CS: Algorithms analysis, sorting methods | Programming class 4 | Programming Lab | Programming Lab |
| Week 6 October 7 - 10 | Psych: Human Inf Processing | Inf: Classification | Inf: Controlled Vocabulary; CS: Quicksort, priority queues | Skill: Design of systems to fit human inf processor | |||
| Week 7 October 14-17 | Econ: Non-strategic agents | Econ: Non-strategic agents | CS: Algorithms | CS: Weighted Graphs; Psych: Decision making | |||
| Week 8 October 21 - 24 | Non-strategic agents, consumer agent cont. | Non-strategic agents, supplier agent cont. | Small group behavior; Assignment due (Olson) | Meet at CREW, C2420 BusAd Small group behavior; Classification assignment review; Assignment due (Drabenstott) | |||
| Week 9 October 28-31 | Review of Agent Group Process | Markets Equilibrium; Assignment due (MacKie-Mason) | Inf: Bibliography, Type-of-literature, Footnote chasing and Least-effort approaches; Assignment due (Drabenstott) | Econ: Markets; Integrating Question #2 | |||
| Week 10 November 4-7 | Inf: Review assignment; Scholar's workstation; indexing; Assignment due (Drabenstott) | Econ: Markets | Econ: Markets | Solving Problems by Searching | |||
| Week 11 November 11-14 | Skill: How to evaluate an information system | Skill: How to evaluate an information system; Inf: Indexing, continued | Project Assignment #2 due; Informed Search Methods | Agents that reason logically | |||
| Week 12 November 18-21 | Inf: Evaluating search results; Integrating question #3; Assignment due (Olson) | Inf: Archives approach | Inf: Review assignment; Metadata | AI: First-order logic; Assignment due (Darr); Inf: Information seeking models revisited | |||
| Week 13 November 25-26 | Group: Report on Progress and Issues | Group: Report on Progress and Issues | AI: Inference; First order logic; Assignment (Economics Problem Set 3) due | Thanksgiving | |||
| Week 14 December 2-5 | Cancelled | Inference cont; Info system economics; Assignment due (Drabenstott) | Telecom industry economics, network externalitities; Assignment due (Olson) | Principle-agent theory; ... | |||
| Week 15 December 9-13 | Project Assignment #3 due; Econ: Smart markets | Inf: Review assignment from Drabenstott; Integrating Question #4 | Final Group Presentations | Second AI assignment due (Darr) | |||
| Week 16 December 16 | Economics Assignment 4 due | ||||||
Last Update: 12/04/96
Name: Eileen Gifford Fenton
Email: egfenton@umich.edu